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James, while I am profoundly humbled in deference to your working-man credentials, your little diatribe does not detract from the convincing legal statement of Mr. Copeland, who, unlike you, cites examples and precedents.
Government’s Case Against Resisters Faulty : Law is Cool 2009
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He was wild for stories that showed the working-man being ripped off, and was keen on taking down political and industry leaders and systems that exploited the poor and powerless for their own profit and gain.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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To the young working-man or working-woman, or married couple, there is no assurance of happy or healthy middle life, nor of solvent old age.
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He was wild for stories that showed the working-man being ripped off, and was keen on taking down political and industry leaders and systems that exploited the poor and powerless for their own profit and gain.
Live and Let Love Andrea Buchanan 2011
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This seems to be the normal condition of the working-man, from the zest with which he addresses himself to the board.
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And even if that army be at the front, fighting in Cuba or South Africa, the soldier in the ranks has a better chance for life than the working-man at home.
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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And he was leaving it to go out into the night to get meat for his mate and cubs — not like a modern working-man going to his machine grind, but in the old, primitive, royal, animal way, by fighting for it.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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In fact, the safest place for a working-man is in the army.
THE HUMAN DRIFT 2010
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And he was leaving it to go out into the night to get meat for his mate and cubs — not like a modern working-man going to his machine grind, but in the old, primitive, royal, animal way, by fighting for it.
A PIECE OF STEAK 2010
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Neil Jordan and Colin Farrell, in New York for the screening of their film Ondine at the Tribeca Film Festival in late April, make an amusingly mismatched couple: Farrell, guarded with dark good looks and mix of bohemian and working-man apparel; Jordan, rumpled in an oversized shirt and a skeptical sneer.
Marshall Fine: Interview: Colin Farrell and Neil Jordan on Ondine 2010
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